Brian Giles
New York Mets 1981–1983; Milwaukee Brewers 1985; Chicago White Sox 1986; Seattle Mariners 1990
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.
Season by season
Batting
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -131.6 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
| 1982 | 45 | 152 | 138 | 14 | 29 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 29 | 6 | 1 | .210 | .270 | .312 | .581 | 60.3 | 62.9 | .271 | -0.1 |
| 1983 | 145 | 445 | 400 | 39 | 98 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 27 | 36 | 77 | 17 | 10 | .245 | .308 | .298 | .606 | 71.6 | 69.6 | .290 | 0.2 |
| 1985 | 34 | 65 | 58 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 16 | 2 | 1 | .172 | .262 | .241 | .503 | 42.6 | 39.6 | .242 | -0.1 |
| 1986 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .273 | .273 | .273 | .545 | 42.3 | 48.0 | .247 | 0.0 |
| 1990 | 45 | 110 | 95 | 15 | 22 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 24 | 2 | 1 | .232 | .336 | .421 | .757 | 114.9 | 110.5 | .350 | 0.8 |
Career totals
A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990-05-17 | SEA @ TOR Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 10 |
| 1983-09-24 | NYM @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1982-08-20 | NYM @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1982-09-12 | NYM @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1990-05-27 | TOR @ SEA Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.